Filter News
Area of Research
- (-) National Security (4)
- Advanced Manufacturing (1)
- Biology and Environment (8)
- Clean Energy (20)
- Computer Science (1)
- Fuel Cycle Science and Technology (1)
- Fusion and Fission (16)
- Fusion Energy (2)
- Isotope Development and Production (1)
- Isotopes (2)
- Materials (43)
- Materials Characterization (1)
- Materials for Computing (6)
- Materials Under Extremes (1)
- Neutron Science (15)
- Nuclear Science and Technology (7)
- Supercomputing (20)
News Topics
- (-) Frontier (1)
- (-) Fusion (1)
- (-) Materials Science (1)
- (-) Nuclear Energy (2)
- 3-D Printing/Advanced Manufacturing (1)
- Advanced Reactors (1)
- Artificial Intelligence (6)
- Bioenergy (1)
- Biology (2)
- Biomedical (1)
- Chemical Sciences (2)
- Climate Change (1)
- Computer Science (8)
- Cybersecurity (9)
- Energy Storage (1)
- Environment (1)
- Exascale Computing (1)
- Grid (1)
- High-Performance Computing (1)
- Machine Learning (4)
- Materials (1)
- National Security (11)
- Neutron Science (2)
- Partnerships (4)
- Physics (1)
- Security (5)
- Sustainable Energy (1)
- Transportation (1)
Media Contacts
![ORNL seismic researcher Chengping Chai placed seismic sensors on the ground at various distances from an ORNL nuclear reactor to learn whether they could detect its operating state. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-06/2023-P03398.jpg?h=3e43625b&itok=TXK8tthh)
Like most scientists, Chengping Chai is not content with the surface of things: He wants to probe beyond to learn what’s really going on. But in his case, he is literally building a map of the world beneath, using seismic and acoustic data that reveal when and where the earth moves.
![State and Local Economic Development Award](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2023-01/FLCAward3_thumbnail.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=FKj_T8JY)
A partnership of ORNL, the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development, the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee and TVA that aims to attract nuclear energy-related firms to Oak Ridge has been recognized with a state and local economic development award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.
![Michelle Kidder received the lab’s Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology for her decades-long work mentoring students, teachers and early-career staff. Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2022-11/2018-P04785_0.png?h=7a8a8cdf&itok=hysTNqXX)
Laboratory Director Thomas Zacharia presented five Director’s Awards during Saturday night's annual Awards Night event hosted by UT-Battelle, which manages ORNL for the Department of Energy.
![Six ORNL scientists have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS. Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2020-11/AAASfellows.jpg?h=d761c044&itok=opKRkA17)
Six ORNL scientists have been elected as fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.